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People are also worried that a national pension scheme is on course for
bankruptcy in less than two decades. Yet Mr Ma cannot bring himself to raise
premiums sharply, because of the temporary unpopularity it risks. When Mr Ma
does try to appeal to Taiwanese who make up the island’s broad political
centre, it often backfires with his party’s core supporters. Following
public grumbles that retired civil servants, teachers and ex-servicemen were
a privileged group, the cabinet announced plans to cut more than $300m in
year-end bonuses, affecting around 381,000. The trouble was, veterans are
among the KMT’s most fervent backers. Now some threaten to take to the
streets in protest and deprive the KMT of their votes until the plan is
scrapped. Meanwhile, Mr Ma’s clean image has been sullied by the indictment
of the cabinet secretary-general for graft.